Property status is not being updated. Properties already in my history are continuing to show as "available etc" when they are flagged as sold on RM, plus new properties are added to the sidebar with status showing as blank.

I assume they have changed the tag name for the status field, but does anyone have a work around or know if PB is still being updated??

Not sure it is working a 100% though,. It does not appear to be picking up the sold data correctly in fact in the property tables it does not even show the Sold data. In the Excel export I have some showing the sold data but a lot are not. Need to do some more checking to be certain

CORRECTION. It does show the SOLD data against some of the SOLD properties. It appear to be those prior to about June . Not sure when Rightmove changed the layout. It may be that SOLD data has only been picjked up on propertties SOLD prior to the lay out chanfe Newewr ones it does not appear to be picking up the SOLD data

Thanks, I've installed the latest update to Property-Bee and it's working again for me.

However, Property-Bee reports changes in the property description when nothing has actually changed. It looks like it's comparing the two different versions of the description, but in one version the html character codes have been converted to characters (eg "£" and "&") and in the other version they haven't been converted (eg "&pound;" and "&amp;")

DaveLDN wrote:It IS supported. I've reported the issues and the parent company are allocating some time this week for their coders to fix this bug. It seems to surround special characters.

They'll have it sorted soon. keep checking back.

Hi DaveLDn - youre on the money again, I see.

What I've noticed is that some props are now marked as Sold / STC by a small graphic as in the photo above.These properties do not have their Status changed in the history listing.However they are registered as Sold by rightmove.

Secondly, Some props that are marked as sold (with the 'Sold' tag such as this one http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for ... 27307.html )Do not show an update on the main search screen.When I click on the property to open it in its own screen, it updates the data with the original or last price making it look as though the prop is on the market again.This has happened with a LOT of properties in my area recently.Whats most confusing is that (so far) NONE of the properties listed has appeared on the LR figures to conclusively 'prove' a selling price.

Something funny is going on here and its more than just a PB bug (although that IS part of the problem).I wonder is RM running two datasets - one for 'subscribers' to get early access to property listings and another for the general public?Perhaps EAs just arent updating their DBs?Or maybe EAs are listing properties as 'Sold' even though they havent actually sold them?

That example you gave - From a Rightmove perspective shows SOLD stc on both property page and search page - So to me the Rightmove seems to be working properly.

Perhaps give the new version a chance when it arrices. It's a centralized 'bee hive' so once any member of PB goes to the page it updates the central database with their findings? That's my understanding anyway. So perhaps someone in your area has an old version of PB running. Who knows!

I have also seen lots of SOLD stc stuff get put back on - which looks suspect to me. If you seem anything you don't like the look of, you can ask Rightmove's data quality team to check it out. Particularly now that 'Portal Juggling' is illegal.

THe problem appears to be Property bee is not picking up the Sold data the only ones I am seeing coorectlyy are thoe that sold prior to the Rightmove format change for new propertie where Rightmove has the Sold graphic it does not refelect in the property bee data. It picks up new properties ok though. The last ones I am seeing as sold are for the 1st of August. It is easiest to see the issue in an Excel export another minor issue is the sidebar does not populate with data

Malvern Drive shows as Sold with the new graphic icon but the Status has not changed.Additionally it shows two new updates Price Changed from yesterday and today because - and only because - on both day I clicked on the house to view the listing in full. This did not show in the initial listing search results.

Gaddum Road listing shows (in PB) an initial listing of 15/5/16 but the rightmove information says 'Added on 04/08/2016'Now - as an example - I just clicked on that property and PB populated the data with a new entry for today, showing the Price Changed to £675000. It will on next refresh then populate the main search page.(I think I'll have to screen shot some searches to explain what I mean.)I cant imagine what sort of error has PB picking up a prop 3 months before RM says it was first listed....

Thanks for the email data report link but I think if PB is collecting, populating, producing erroneous data its actually becoming more of an obstacle to research than a useful tool.